Quotes for All
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store – they’re not the most thrifty thrift store – but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the … Read more
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. Ezra Miller
When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that’s real style to me. Erin Wasson
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can’t believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop. Elle Varner
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness. Elizabeth Zimmermann
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature – even the smallest insect, let alone a human being – as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of … Read more
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. Edmund Burke
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these \”giddy-paced\” times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin. Fanny Kemble
The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual’s own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, … Read more